What is My Health and Care Record?

Powered by Patients Know Best, My Health and Care Record is a secure online personal health record where you can see most of your hospital appointment letters, laboratory results and radiology reports. 

If you choose to register, you’ll receive the majority of hospital letters through the platform, meaning all your information is stored securely in one place.

The benefits of My Health and Care Record

Your My Health and Care Record puts information about health in your hands. The benefits include:

• a secure online space to see your hospital appointment and clinical letters and test results, with instant notifications when new information is made available
• your information is available on any internet enabled device, anywhere, anytime
• the option (if you wish) to securely share this information with family, carers and health professionals
• paperless online access to your personal health information
• environmentally friendly, less paper means reducing the impact on the environment
• recent communication is available to view. 

Read Juliet’s story

Want to hear how My Health and Care Record has already benefitted patients in Sussex?

Read Juliet’s story

Juliet, an active grandmother of three, enjoys spending time outdoors with her family. Having always led an active life, in the last few years, she has come to see her GP more regularly for a few ongoing health (to manage her arthritis, type two diabetes and cholesterol). 

In order to maintain her love of outdoor activities, she is managing to keep track of her health by viewing her appointment letters, x ray reports and blood results on her my health and care record. 

“As much as I’d like to think my body hasn’t changed, my health has slowed me down in the past few years. My husband and I like to travel and we’re often away from home, so being able to keep track my appointments without needing to wait at home for a letter has been brilliant. It’s also been quite helpful to be able to view my blood results online and not have to bother my GP practice calling them for the results. After seeing how easy it is to use, even my husband has registered and he’s still using the landline! It’s also been rather helpful giving my daughter permission to see my appointments as I have to admit my memory isn’t what it used to be, so she is helping to keep me on track!”

Patient survey

We were delighted to receive 10,000 patient responses to our recent survey, to better understand how registered patients use MHCR, the positives and negatives of the features available, and what features they’d like to be added in the future.

Survey results

What features do you use ?

Most patients viewed their blood results and clinic letters.

Would you recommend My Health and Care Record to a friend?

95% of patients would recommend, maybe recommend or have already recommended My Health and Care Record to friends and family. 

How secure do you feel your data is on My Health and Care Record?

Only 3% of patients felt their data isn’t secure. We can confirm your data held within My Health and Care Record is encrypted and maintained in line with University Hospitals Sussex Trust Data Protection Policies. Your data is not held on your computer device. Patient information is encrypted so that only those people with consent to view your information can do so.

Recruiting Specialty Teams at UHSussex

My Health and Care Record uses technology to allow patients to have greater control over their own health and treatment. 

Some speciality teams at UHSussex are starting to use My Health and Care Record to make the most of the features available including:

• Patient Initiated Follow Up pathways
• Patient information libraries 
• Messaging
• Patient symptom tracking 

We’ve been inspired by neighbouring trusts who have used My Health and Care Record with great success. They have been able to:

• Reduce hospital and GP attendances for patients with heart failure

Chelsea and Westminster asked PKB to build a platform for patients to track their symptoms and improve communication between patients and clinicians. This in turn reduced the number of A&E, hospital and GP attendances and improved patient long term outcomes.

• Reduce economic cost to patient and hospital for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) worked with PKB to build a comprehensive patient symptom tracker. Patients are able to self-manage their condition far more effectively and warn their clinicians before problems occur. This reduce A&E attendances and increases earlier intervention as patients can quickly flag side effects of their medications.

Frequently asked questions